Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 81 56
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,302 1,562 3,518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 3.62% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 3.87% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,046 2,780
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £119,000 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,040 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +6.22% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,188 £77,500 +3.33% 490
London +8 657 £87,500 - 209
Work from Home -24 576 £72,500 +0.71% 365
UK excluding London -105 539 £67,500 -2.23% 346
North of England -41 244 £67,500 -3.57% 120
North West -34 117 £66,250 -5.36% 56
South East -102 102 £75,000 +11.11% 94
Yorkshire -41 98 £70,000 -2.77% 33
South West -67 62 £65,000 -7.48% 32
Midlands -57 57 £67,500 +3.85% 48
East of England -13 38 £65,000 +13.04% 18
West Midlands -23 33 £67,500 -3.57% 26
North East -11 29 £65,000 +23.81% 32
Scotland -80 28 £65,000 -13.33% 23
East Midlands -62 23 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Wales -20 7 £55,200 +17.02% 17
Northern Ireland -34 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.61%) Apache
3 20 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 18 (1.38%) Confluence
5 14 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.00%) JBoss
7 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.77%) CMS
9 8 (0.61%) IIS
10 6 (0.46%) Appian
11 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.31%) Camunda
12 4 (0.31%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.23%) Liferay
13 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.077%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.84%) Maya
2 11 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.61%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.077%) Quorum
7 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.077%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 715 (54.92%) AWS
2 586 (45.01%) Azure
3 288 (22.12%) GCP
4 231 (17.74%) Serverless
5 170 (13.06%) SaaS
6 118 (9.06%) GitHub
7 106 (8.14%) Amazon S3
8 100 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
10 69 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
12 60 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (3.46%) OpenShift
16 43 (3.30%) PaaS
17 37 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.23%) Broadband
2 12 (0.92%) HTTP
3 9 (0.69%) AMQP
4 7 (0.54%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.31%) DHCP
7 4 (0.31%) DNS
7 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.31%) SNMP
7 4 (0.31%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.077%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.13%) NoSQL
2 174 (13.36%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (9.75%) MongoDB
4 119 (9.14%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.68%) MySQL
6 65 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 63 (4.84%) DynamoDB
8 48 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (3.00%) Redis
10 29 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 27 (2.07%) Big Data
13 23 (1.77%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.31%) Power BI
15 13 (1.00%) DB2
15 13 (1.00%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.92%) Tableau
17 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 171 (13.13%) Git
2 122 (9.37%) Jenkins
3 81 (6.22%) GitLab
4 53 (4.07%) TeamCity
5 45 (3.46%) JIRA
6 39 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 39 (3.00%) JUnit
7 33 (2.53%) Selenium
8 29 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 27 (2.07%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.69%) Mockito
11 20 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.46%) Maven
13 13 (1.00%) JMeter
14 11 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.84%) Postman
14 11 (0.84%) Vite
15 8 (0.61%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.54%) git-flow
General
1 390 (29.95%) Finance
2 377 (28.96%) Social Skills
3 162 (12.44%) Banking
4 107 (8.22%) Law
5 100 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.68%) Retail
8 67 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.45%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.99%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.38%) Back Office
12 25 (1.92%) Games
13 24 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.69%) Billing
14 22 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.31%) Advertising
15 17 (1.31%) Legal
16 14 (1.08%) Marketing
17 12 (0.92%) Front Office
18 11 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 442 (33.95%) Developer
2 342 (26.27%) Senior
3 253 (19.43%) Software Engineer
4 213 (16.36%) Architect
5 165 (12.67%) Lead
6 120 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (8.53%) Java Developer
9 102 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (6.45%) Java Engineer
12 76 (5.84%) .NET Developer
13 52 (3.99%) Software Developer
14 48 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.61%) Lead Developer
16 40 (3.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 39 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
17 39 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
18 37 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (22.96%) .NET
2 289 (22.20%) React
3 262 (20.12%) RESTful
4 226 (17.36%) Spring
5 209 (16.05%) REST
6 198 (15.21%) Spring Boot
7 185 (14.21%) Node.js
8 178 (13.67%) Kafka
9 111 (8.53%) AngularJS
10 101 (7.76%) .NET Core
11 82 (6.30%) gRPC
12 73 (5.61%) HTML
13 69 (5.30%) .NET Framework
14 61 (4.69%) CSS
15 60 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (4.45%) ASP.NET
17 56 (4.30%) Middleware
18 52 (3.99%) Django
19 49 (3.76%) Hibernate
20 46 (3.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 379 (29.11%) Cloud Native
2 220 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (8.45%) Enterprise Software
4 109 (8.37%) Product Ownership
5 58 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.76%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
9 33 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.46%) Algorithms
11 26 (2.00%) AI Agents
11 26 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.92%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
14 19 (1.46%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.31%) IoT
15 17 (1.31%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.15%) Public Cloud
17 13 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.30%) Linux
2 21 (1.61%) Windows
3 17 (1.31%) Android
4 8 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.077%) Fedora
8 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (48.77%) CI/CD
2 553 (42.47%) Agile
3 514 (39.48%) DevOps
4 495 (38.02%) Software Engineering
5 372 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 306 (23.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (21.12%) Mentoring
9 260 (19.97%) Event-Driven
10 240 (18.43%) AI
11 239 (18.36%) Test Automation
12 237 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 205 (15.75%) Computer Science
14 176 (13.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 163 (12.52%) Scrum
16 158 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
17 156 (11.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 151 (11.60%) Clean Code
19 147 (11.29%) TDD
20 143 (10.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 444 (34.10%) Java
2 345 (26.50%) Python
3 278 (21.35%) SQL
4 255 (19.59%) C#
4 255 (19.59%) JavaScript
5 213 (16.36%) TypeScript
6 111 (8.53%) Go
7 42 (3.23%) Scala
8 40 (3.07%) PHP
9 31 (2.38%) Bash
10 30 (2.30%) C++
11 27 (2.07%) C
12 25 (1.92%) Ruby
13 22 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 16 (1.23%) Rust
16 13 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.54%) Bicep
18 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (16.13%) Degree
2 139 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.84%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 37 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.08%) CISSP
13 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.77%) CISM
15 9 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.69%) PMP
16 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.91%) QA
2 29 (2.23%) GDPR
3 28 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 27 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.92%) NIST
6 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.77%) NCSC
8 7 (0.54%) EMIR
9 6 (0.46%) GRC
10 5 (0.38%) IFRS
10 5 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 404 (31.03%) Docker
2 15 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 402 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 223 (17.13%) Terraform
3 85 (6.53%) Grafana
4 65 (4.99%) Ansible
5 35 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.84%) Kibana
7 14 (1.08%) Argo
8 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.077%) MIIS
14 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 139 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.07%) Google
3 51 (3.92%) Oracle
4 36 (2.76%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.38%) SAP
6 17 (1.31%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.08%) Software AG
8 14 (1.08%) Splunk
9 13 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.77%) Cisco
12 10 (0.77%) Databricks
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
13 9 (0.69%) Guidewire